Skip to main content
Habitus, dorsal view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Head on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Stylus on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): dorsal view. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) belonus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998a: 30.

    Holotype; male; 8a5197d5-d595-4b64-b82f-3dd7460b65ad; deposited at: University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India (UASB); India: Maharastra: Khandala, 18.4613° N, 73.2236° E, 6.xi.1991, grasses, Coll. C.A. Viraktamath

  • Maiestas belona (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 21.
  • Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Srinivasa & Meshram, 2017: 1627.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Dash, P.C. & Viraktamath, C.A. (1998a) A review of the Indian and Nepalese grass feeding leafhopper genus Deltocephalus (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) with description of new species. Hexapoda (Insecta Indica), 10(1-2), 1–59.
  • Srinivasa, R.N. & Meshram, N.M. (2017) Note on genus Maiestas (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with diagnosis of important species. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 5(5), 1616–1636.
  • Webb, M.D. & Viraktamath, C.A. (2009a) Annotated check-list, generic key and new species of Old World Deltocephalini leafhoppers with nomenclatorial changes in the Deltocephalus group and other Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Zootaxa, 2163, 1–64.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Ancient Greek (βελόνη, belóne): needle, garfish

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023